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Shadowbane

Shadowbane

Instant

uncommon

The next time a source of your choice would deal damage to you and/or creatures you control this turn, prevent that damage. If damage from a black source is prevented this way, you gain that much life.

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Semantic Tags

Life Gainmechanical

Gains you life. Relevant for lifegain-matters strategies and general survivability.

Lifelinkvector

A keyword ability that causes a player to gain life. See rule 702.15, “Lifelink.”

Format Legality

commanderlegal
oathbreakerlegal
modernnot legal
pioneernot legal
standardnot legal
legacylegal
vintagelegal
paupernot legal
historicnot legal
explorernot legal
alchemynot legal

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Printings (1)

SetRarityTCGplayerCard KingdomCardmarket
Mirage#38uncommon···

Related Rules

120.3f

Damage dealt by a source with lifelink causes that source’s controller to gain that much life, in addition to the damage’s other results.

120.4d

Finally, the damage event occurs.

122.1b

A keyword counter on a permanent or on a card in a zone other than the battlefield causes that object to gain that keyword. The keywords that a keyword counter can be are flying, first strike, double strike, deathtouch, decayed, exalted, haste, hexproof, indestructible, lifelink, menace, reach, shadow, trample, and vigilance, as well as any variants of those keywords. See rule 613.1f.

702.15

Lifelink

702.15a

Lifelink is a static ability.

702.15b

Damage dealt by a source with lifelink causes that source’s controller, or its owner if it has no controller, to gain that much life (in addition to any other results that damage causes). See rule 120.3.

702.15c

If an object changes zones before an effect causes it to deal damage, its last known information is used to determine whether it had lifelink.

702.15d

The lifelink rules function no matter what zone an object with lifelink deals damage from.

Rulings

2008-08-01

This only prevents damage the chosen source would deal to you or a creature you control. If the creature would deal damage to another player, a planeswalker, or a creature you don’t control, it does not get prevented.